[mattslope]

If she is who I am thinking, I free you to pursue more than a friendship with her. I believe I called her "friend", which she is. I completely support you, if I am right.

[redbaron]

you're wrong, but i hope you still support me. :P

[redbaron]

So today, i went to work, left early, and went to the boat show downtown. (Seattle)

It was good, though i somehow ended up there for about 7.5 hours. Why, i'm not exactly sure, but there's an awful lot of stuff to look at, even when you're only looking at a few things. Plus, the "Qwest Event Center" is friggin huge, so you have to walk miles. Oh, and they are using the upper floor of the parking garage this year. Which is odd, since when a train goes by (canvas walls on the garage) the air-horn is extremely, extremely loud.

Anyhow, my feet are tired. And i've been stressing lately, though i don't know why. Perhaps finance? I'm not really sure.

Anyway, i got home around 9:30, decided i'd go walk for a mile or two, and smoke a clove. Much mellowing ensued. Remember kids, when it's legal, and done in moderation, chemicals can be good! (haha).

so now i'm doing laundry, contemplating taking a shower or something. I need to clean my kitchen and do the dishes, and move & unpack boxes... i'm feeling sort of unmotivated in that regard. meh.

Anyway

[mattslope]

FOr those not in the "know", Redbaron has a movie theater room in his house. This makes his gadgetry mildly addicting and consequently hard to want to do things like clean.

Andrew, where did you walk to? Did you show your dad the offroad vid?

[redbaron]

He hasn't been over lately. We've been working quite a bit, though this weekend, it was mostly stereo stuff. Which was pretty spiffy, but yeah.

I walked down to 40th, and then headed south for a block, took a right and checked out the school grounds. I am looking for a track. I didn't see one, but it was quite dark out- they do have some nice tennis courts though. I haven't played since probably middle school- and even then it was just volleying back and forth, not really for points, or loves, or however the heck tennis works. It's good excersize though. I like handball better, but you need walls, and the balls really do hurt your hands. Whatever.

heh, i haven't fired up my theater in a few days. We're having LoTR:EE's marathon on saturday starting @ 1pm. People can be invited, though if you're under 18 it might be best to check with a parent, since it will probably run until 3am- which means that getting up (going to bed?) for church will be hard that sunday. Ah well. It'll be worth it.

I bought the original Willy Wonka's chocolate factory on DVD the other day, i need to watch that, but not tonight, since it's too late. Umm.. I can't wait until tim burton's version comes out though.

I'd really like to see Tim Burton & Guy Ritchie team up and do a version of Alice and the Looking Glass- I think that's the only way a movie adaptation will get the screwed-up nature of that book correctly. FWIW.

Anyway. gotta go check laundry.

[redbaron]

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/...1#989002198631

fwiw, see some pictures of josh's movie theater, where LoTR:EE will be happening. @_@

he is a sick, bad little man.

[redbaron]

Well, i have taken a first step, we'll see how things go. At the best, things could be good. At the worst, at least i know, and I know that i didn't wuss out (completely).

Anyhow, time to go watch T-fart (err-- The fast & the Furious) haha. I love comedies.

oh, mattslope, for all the whining i do about the "this car is the death of my wallet" and such, i really do appreciate the car-sale-dealie. It does = <3 and the smiles per gallon quotient is very high.

[mattslope]

Redbaron, to not whine about a true love is to miss half the pleasure of said true love.

Really? You and mystery date are possibly to become an item? I will pray for you.

[redbaron]

I wouldn't say that just yet. I sent a mere message that communicated my desire to get together, spend some time and get talking. I would like to communicate desire towards relationship in personage- which is hard to set up these days.

Prayer is always appreciated. I am not a person who likes taking un-known risks. Driving is one thing, as i know the factors, possibilities, and can calculate outcomes. Personal relationships i am bad at and can't say. So it's a risk. Pure, un-educatedness. oy.

well, we'll see what happens.

[mattslope]

If I am wrong, may you strike me with a feather. Personal relationships with wimmens is more riskey than investing in buggy whips. I will pray for you.

PS the true love thing was in reference to the shiney in the garage, not the shiney in yer eyes.

[redbaron]

well, there is always that happiness. She is very beautiful, and i am going to spend at least a little money (and time) this month. I need to do those two bronze (brass/copper?) rings for the turbo (it shouldn't take too long should it?) and the clutch slave cylinder, in this month of febtober, so yeah. Plus, i think i'm going to get some wires run for a four channel, and at the same time just get a power block, so that i can eventually put in my 300w JBL & a 10" L5. That seems like it would be a good combo. I might buy the sub now, since i could get one at stereo wherehouse for like $120- I don't think i'd do one of their crappy boxes though. :P

I also found that circuit will send the deck out and it won't be back for 7 days, so i'm going to install it and see if it acts funky first, and then if it acts up, i'll take it in.

as for the other thing, it's at the cross your fingers and take a tums or two stage i guess. :P

[mattslope]

L5 sounds like fun.

Circuit sends the deck to Kent. But, somehow it takes 7 days to get it back.

Let me know how your tums and cross fingered situation works out.

PS If you need help putting in the other infinity 6.5, don't call me... lol

[redbaron]

I talked to the people who i <3 for the talon lovin' (pina) and they said that they might be able to do something for me in the way of financing, but they don't like having things hang out for more than 3-4 months, especially depending on cost. I'm going to try to head down on friday to talk to them. I don't think i can really afford to do anything until may- plus i can save up for the experience.

In other news, i've had a very illegal weekend of driving. Lets see here.

On saturday, i was on a friends borrowed 2000 Yamaha R6. This is a 600cc sportbike with about 112 hp, and MAN. Whew, that's quick. I was following a buddy on a CBR600F4, and we were "meeting or exceeding" Even with the calculated error of the speedometer (new sprockets and such) we were driving along at digits starting with a 1 & a 3 or better, and we weren't exactly going 13mph.

Did i mention the "holy crap" factor when we went right by one of Washington State's finest? The good news is that he was busy with someone else and decided that the only idiots we were going to kill were ourselves, and let us be. (we be dumb).

Then later that night i pretended to race my buddies new Scion tC, which while being an extremely nice, comfy ride, is not exactly winning races, with 2900lbs, and only 160hp. Oh, and on that same ride home, i had a Porsche GT2 (aka droolx0rmobile) romp up behind me and badger me into playing. Which i did, sort of, but it was late (aka patrolled) and no chance of winning, so the two of us traded numbers (not phone numbers, those have 7 digits extra) and had a good old time.

Home again with no consequences. hoo-ray.

*****NOTE******

The aforementioned post does not necessarily chronical illegal activities, or condone any such acts. If caught by law enforcement, always take your consequences like you should. Etc. etc.

[redbaron]

by a stroke of genius, i disabled viewing signatures (sorry matt, i've still got your image in my sig though!).

This forum is now actually tolerable. I seriously just wanted to club a few people with a baby seal. No, you don't need a 4.5 paragraph, colored, flashing, scrolling, image laden sig, when you post crap like "LOL". GRRRR. It makes me happy when i go to ars, and they don't allow that crap. ah well. I do like avatars though, for the most part.

I bought some more stuff for the car (bad andrew). It happens. :P

[mattslope]

Congrats on the new bits. I hope to see them in action. Call me, man.